CRP711 URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: A CRITICAL EVALUATION
| Course Code: | 1210711 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | City and Regional Planning |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. AYDA ERAYDIN |
| Offered Semester: | Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
This is an advanced course that will provide a critical analysis of existing urban and regional development theories and their practical implementation from the perspective of new challenges in urban and regional issues. The goal is to enable students to criticise existing theories and planning practice and make them familiar to the new discourses on urban and regional development issues.
Course Content
Critical evaluation of existing theories of urban and regional development. The major turning points and motives of change in development theories: the shift from exogenous to endogenous growth models. Evaluation of current endogenous growth and territorial development theories. How far are they able to reflect the ongoing transformation in economic dynamics?
Course Learning Outcomes
To enhance understanding theories and debates on planning and enable students to criticise them as well.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | To follow and evaluate contemporary developments and discussions on urban development and urban planning. | ✔ | |||
| 2 | To attain the accumulation of knowledge that enables to establish relations between theoretical studies to empirical studies on practice. | ✔ | |||
| 3 | To have the necessary knowledge and skills in order to relate urban development theories to policies and plans. | ✔ | |||
| 4 | To have the accumulation of knowledge that enables to establish cooordination between different approaches developed by various disciplines. | ✔ | |||
| 5 | To evaluate plausible approaches in solving urban problems and their causes by using theoretical knowledge and technical skills. | ✔ | |||
| 6 | To have a good command of English language in order to follow international developments and publications as well as carrying out international studies. | ✔ | |||
| 7 | To have the competence to conduct high quality works in project and plan development processes. | ✔ | |||
| 8 | To develop solutions by interpreting and creating syntheses among those parties that take place in the planning process. | ✔ | |||
| 9 | To be confident in making use of the proposed solution alternatives for determining the priorities in policy and plan making. | ✔ | |||
| 10 | To develop the necessary technical knowhow and communicational skills to present the work accomplished by urban planners. | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution